Where ownership, control and value are decided.
Keller Morgan advises on brand development, licensing, and the financing of intellectual-property assets, with a focus on music copyright transactions, catalog acquisitions, and commercialization.
Legal and business analysis
Consequential matters require counsel to connect ownership, economics, risk, and execution.
The legal questions in a consequential matter are rarely isolated. Ownership affects control; contracts allocate economics; rights determine what a client can transfer, license, or finance; and timing can alter leverage.
Keller Morgan analyzes those dimensions as one business decision, then structures and documents a course aligned with the client's objectives, material risks, and path to execution.
Practice areas
Six connected areas of practice.
Keller Morgan advises through the full arc of a matter, from ongoing operations and brand development to the acquisition, financing, licensing, and sale of businesses and valuable rights.
Intellectual Property Transactions
Ownership, acquisition, disposition, licensing, financing, and commercialization of intellectual-property assets, including diligence on control, transferability, revenue rights, collateral, consents, and risk allocation.
Musical Composition Sales & Acquisitions
Acquisition and sale of musical compositions and related catalog assets, including chain of title, royalty interests, publishing and administration agreements, consents, termination and reversion risk, diligence, and closing protections.
Entertainment
Counsel on film, television, digital media, production, distribution, talent, underlying rights, licensing, and the agreements that govern commercial execution.
Corporate M&A
Entity and ownership structure, capitalization, governance, operating and shareholder arrangements, mergers, stock and asset purchases, diligence, negotiation, documentation, and closing.
Licensing & Branding
Counsel for creators, brand directors, and brand-led businesses on endorsements, sponsorships, collaborations, ambassador and affiliate relationships, content use, name, image, and likeness rights, trademarks, exclusivity, approvals, compensation, and ownership.
Outside General Counsel
Retained counsel for founders, owners, investors, management teams, and rights holders who need senior legal support without a full-time in-house lawyer, including commercial agreements, governance, counterparties, risk management, and business-critical decisions.
Who we represent
Counsel aligned with the client's position and the outcome at stake.
Rights owners, artists & entertainment companies
Protect, monetize, and transfer rights without compromising long-term value.
Counsel addresses music catalogs, compositions, masters, film and television rights, licensing, royalty interests, distribution, and other intellectual property transactions.
Investment firms, venture capital firms & strategic buyers
Determine whether the rights, revenue, and transaction structure support the investment.
Counsel connects ownership, contracts, royalty cash flows, consents, diligence findings, financing, and closing protections to the economics of the deal.
Creators, brand directors & brand-led businesses
Build and license a brand on terms that preserve control and future value.
Counsel covers endorsements, sponsorships, collaborations, ambassador and affiliate relationships, content use, name, image, and likeness rights, trademarks, exclusivity, approvals, compensation, and ownership.
Founders, owners & private companies
Establish the legal foundation for growth, financing, acquisition, or sale.
The firm advises on governance, ownership, commercial agreements, operating relationships, M&A, risk allocation, and business-critical decisions.
Lenders, referring counsel & trusted advisors
Add focused transaction and rights counsel where the matter demands specialist judgment.
Keller Morgan supports lenders and integrates with M&A, finance, tax, estate, and other advisors on defined workstreams while preserving the existing client relationship.
Experience
Experience informed by institutional business affairs, private practice, and complex rights transactions.
Counsel to private enterprise
Keller Morgan
Advises founders, owners, private companies, and their advisors on corporate, commercial, and transactional matters.Entertainment & IP transactions
Fischbach, Perlstein, Lieberman & Almond
Brings experience representing entertainment clients in music-rights, licensing, and intellectual-property transactions.Institutional business affairs
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Draws on experience as former Director of U.S. Business Affairs, with direct exposure to institutional approvals, risk, and commercial decision-making.Transaction scale
$100 million to $300 million
Represents investment firms, venture capital firms, and artists in the acquisition and sale of musical compositions, masters, and related intellectual property assets.Operating perspective
Production and rights in practice
Advises on production, talent, rights, and commercial execution from an operating perspective.Platform expansion
UCLA Business Law LL.M.
Advanced study in corporate finance, M&A, and secured transactions complements an established transaction and rights practice.Matt Keller
Direct counsel informed by institutional standards and commercial realities.
Matt Keller founded Keller Morgan to advise private companies, principals, investors and rights owners on matters where legal structure and business consequence cannot be separated.
His experience spans studio business affairs, law-firm transactions, private-company counsel, complex negotiations, and rights analysis. That background allows him to address the immediate legal issue while accounting for the commercial decision behind it.
Keller Morgan emphasizes clear advice, disciplined analysis, and direct access to counsel.
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